Moulton City Council

Mejias appointed to Moulton council

The office manager for the local funeral home was appointed Tuesday to fill the council seat left open when one of its members walked out the door last month.

Moulton PD answers 744 calls during month of August 2022

August was a busy month for the Moulton Police Department, with 744 calls logged, 26 citations written, and 58 written warnings issued, six of those citations were for truck ordinance violations of the city truck route.

Moulton Council Walkout/Topic Analysis: So, what’s all this about bottlenecks and water?

AS WE MENTIONED IN OUR RELATED STORY, we don’t pretend to know all the workings behind why, midway through a discussion of an item he asked be placed on the agenda, Councilman Donald Wagner stood up, handed over a prepared letter of resignation, and simply walked out the door Tuesday evening.

How does Moulton best prepare for the future?

He dealt with a few city water well woes. He witnessed how the state’s power grid was flat ill-equipped to handle something as surprisingly simple as a weeklong freeze.

City updates noise, junked car ordinances

With much of the groundwork already laid and details discussed as part of the city’s ongoing workshop meetings earlier this year, city attorney Eddie Escobar sought the council’s approval on his recent updates to two existing city ordinances in Moulton last month.

MOULTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORT

The Moulton Police Department responded to 154 calls from July 9 to Aug. 8, which resulted in 36 warnings and 11 citations during the monthlong period between council meetings.

Have what it takes to be new Moulton police chief?

Moulton city council voted Tuesday to begin taking job applications for a new police chief, following Mitchell Bennet’s resignation from the post earlier this summer and appointment of Daniel Beyer as interim city police chief.

Final steps of county’s communications upgrades fall into place

While the elements were essentially the same for both places, Motorola’s plan to add satellite dishes and other components to Moulton’s only water tower met with far more amicable arrangements than the group found just a few miles south over in Shiner last month.

Drought forces water restrictions in Moulton

The drought hasn’t been kind to Moulton’s water resources this year. The city spent several weeks and several thousands of dollars rehabbing the city’s newest well, Well No. 4, earlier this year, finally bringing it back online in early June.